Colorado · Public charity
Colorado Democracy Network
The organization is an active community of charitable individuals and families whose mission is to help fund and grow a sustainable civic ecosystem in colorado. The overarching goal of the organization is to increase resources for the charitable community working in pursuit of social change. Our unique role is to organize individual…
- $56k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $130k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Colorado Democracy Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $56k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $135k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $35k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Civic Education | $75,000 | 3 | 56% |
| One Colorado Education Fund | $27,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Voces Unidas de Las Montanas | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Soul 2 Soul Sisters | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| New Era Colorado Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Resource Center Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Merle Chambers Fund · Caring for Colorado Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Hopewell Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Colorado Democracy Network
- How much does Colorado Democracy Network give?
- Colorado Democracy Network reported 3 grants totaling $56,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Colorado Democracy Network fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (33%), Public Benefit (21%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Colorado Democracy Network's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Colorado Civic Education ($75k), One Colorado Education Fund ($28k), Voces Unidas de Las Montanas ($25k).
- Does Colorado Democracy Network fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Colorado Democracy Network?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Merle Chambers Fund, Caring for Colorado Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County.
- Where is Colorado Democracy Network based?
- Colorado Democracy Network is based in CO.
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